Zebra Keyboard

Piano is like drudgery. - Warren Zevon

Up there in his ivory shower - Archie Bunker

I'm Liberace without a piano. - Paul Lynde

A zebra does not change its spots. - Al Gore

The piano has been drinking, not me. - Tom Waits

Illusion is the first of all pleasures. - Oscar Wilde

The piano ain't got no wrong notes. - Thelonious Monk

Get up from that piano. You hurtin' its feelings. - Jelly Roll Morton

What a strange illusion to suppose that beauty is goodness. - Leo Tolstoy

Every day a piano doesn't fall on my head is good luck. - Meg Rosoff

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein

I don't put boundaries on myself when I sit at the piano. - Vanessa Carlton

If I'm going to Hell, I'm going there playing the piano. - Jerry Lee Lewis

Illusion is the dust the devil throws in the eyes of the foolish. - Minna Antrim

Some of my best friends are illusions. Been sustaining me for years. - Sheila Ballantyne

It's hard to get ivory in Africa, but in Alabama the Tuscaloosa. - Groucho Marx

Having a baby is like trying to push a grand piano through a transom. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it. - Tom Lehrer

Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. - Joan Didion

There are eighty-eight keys on a piano and within that, an entire universe. - James Rhodes

There, standing at the piano, was the original good time who had been had by all. - Kenneth Tynan

Like the cosmetics industry, the securities business is engaged in selling illusion. - Paul Samuelson

Free will is an illusion. People always choose the perceived path of greatest pleasure. - Scott Adams

My father had a piano that was a nickelodeon - put a nickel, and the roller would play. - Frank Sinatra

Wishes and fears are illusions, Dil Bahadur, not realities. You must practice detachment. - Isabel Allende

When she started to play, Steinway came down personally and rubbed his name off the piano. - Bob Hope

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality. - Irish Murdoch

Give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere. - Keith Richards

The illusion that the times that were are better than those that are has probably pervaded all ages. - Horace Greeley

Although I am not stupid, the mathematical side of my brain is like dumb notes upon a damaged piano. - Margot Asquith

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time. - Ani DiFranco

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist but you have ceased to live. - Mark Twain

What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. - Woody Allen

Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions; reality can be attained only by someone who is detached. - Simone Weil

The tiger, he come up with the tigeress. The lion, he come up with the lionette. The zebra, he come up with the zeberelle. - Archie Bunker

You write to become immortal, or because the piano happens to be open, or you've looked into a pair of beautiful eyes. - Robert Schumann

The piano is a universal instrument. If you start there, learn your theory and how to read, you can go on to any other instrument. - Eddie Van Halen

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die. - W H Auden

When I was nine, my father said 'You can take piano lessons or do karate' - I had a black belt and was competing before I was 19. - Elodie Yung